To prepare students for the college or career of their choice, Lighthouse believes students must develop their knowledge and skills in the following areas:
- Core character traits, including respect, responsibility, compassion, collaboration, communication, courage, curiosity, persistence, integrity and reflection
- The conventions of language and computations of mathematics
- Critical reading, strategic writing, and effective communication
- Mathematical reasoning, problem-solving and computation across all strands: Number Sense, Algebra and Functions, Measurement and Geometry, Statistics, and Data Analysis, and Probability
- The skills of a scientist, including collecting data, designing a controlled experiment, analyzing data, and using formal scientific communication.
- The skills of a social scientist, including research and evidence, point of view, interpretation, connections and patterns, supposition, determining importance.
- A deep understanding of core scientific and social studies content that will provide them with the cultural capital to enter and succeed in college
- The ability to express themselves through the arts
- The knowledge and skills necessary to improve their physical fitness and make informed choices about their personal wellness.
- Technological fluency
Lighthouse has set the following SMART goals for itself, to measure it’s progress toward meeting these goals
- 80% of students will read, write, and compute at grade level by their fifth year at Lighthouse
- All students will graduate from Lighthouse having taken the A – G requirements, enabling them to apply to the UC/CSU system
- By 2011, 90% of students enrolled as 10th graders will graduate with UC/CSU eligibility
- By 2011, 100% of UC/CSU eligible students will be accepted to a college
- By 2011, Lighthouse will reach the state target API of 800 for its K-8 program, indicating that our students have met state expectations of proficiency across the content areas. The 9-12 program will reach this goal in 2015.
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The following Core Practices ensure that we are deliberate and reflective in supporting our students to meet these high levels of expectations:
Curriculum & Instruction Aligned to State Standards
- Using the California State Standards, we have identified power standards in literacy and math for each grade level, based on the California State Standards.
- The power standards are then used to identify learning targets for each grade in math, literacy, social studies, science, and the arts.
- These learning targets are then sequenced on our curriculum map, ensuring that all students are provided with the cultural capital to enter and excel in college.
- Curriculum and instruction is then backwards designed to develop student mastery of these learning targets
Assessment and Reporting Practices That Are Aligned to Learning Targets
- A portfolio in which students gather evidence of their mastery of learning targets
- Passage presentations at Grades K, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 in which students present to their teachers, family, and community members evidence of their mastery of loop content in order to be promoted to the next loop.
- A report card that provides detailed information on students mastery of learning targets, in both grades (JB, Ap, M, E) and narrative
- Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), that track students progress toward mastery of specific learning goals
- Interim assessments, which provide teachers with an additional external measure of student mastery that serves to inform instruction for the whole class, small groups, and individual students.
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